AAPTI: An Avenue for psychosocial and Therapeutic Interventions

An absence of support beyond emergency health care and one time ex-gratia, in the context of mass emergency events, led to this field action project.

The project emerged from the TISS - TPSWT response to 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack 2008 and later extended to centrifugal disasters such as 13/7 Mumbai Triple Bomb Blast, 2011 and 9/12 Kolkata AMRI Hospital Fire, 2011 with the following objectives:

Understand and document the unique needs and concerns of the survivors.